I was curious as to the oldest file on my computer related to D&D, and I think I found it … This PnP idea was something that I hoped to put into my second module, but we’ll see how that pans out … It shows how long this campaign has been in the making … nearly 30 years!
The oldest things I have aren’t on a computer. Most of my D&D playing was in '78-79, way before I had a computer. I have many maps, treasure lists, monsters, NPCs and encounters I wrote from back then and over the years on paper. Lots of colored pencil drawings, too. Most are horrible, some are OK.
They’re all lovingly filed in a Mead Trapper Keeper.
My earliest paper notes that I still have predate this by a long way too.
I believe this campaign was started around 1982, but I had another campaign prior this one that was a bit more amateur… Probably around the late 1970’s. I don’t think I have anything from that campaign, unless it’s buried away in some old suitcase.
Only things I can find on computer are the thousands of pages of notes I’ve made since the release of NWN1 inspired me to take all my old game world I’d invented as a kid and put it in an RPG.
Then it will be in my upcoming module. You will become a famous artist now! (well … not as famous as the guy who created the picture to the right, but hey …).
This is NWN1-format, and I fear it will not work in NWN2 out of the box. The best idea I’ve now is to find a painting in NWN2 of similar size and try to replace the canvas.
I grabbed the files just in case I ever do update my Soul Shaker module … and will do the same for NWN2 module when I get that extra bit of time to add this sort of thing.
I have done some added pictures for NWN2, so I can do it when the time comes.